Anna Lise Jensen

Anna Lise Jensen

  • News Bio/CV
  • Harbor Lines, 2023
  • Harbor Library, 2022
  • Plant Library, 2022
  • Tidal Strait, 2021
  • more work
    • Jane Jacobs Lives Here: Bike the Verrazzano, 2020
    • Poetic Action, 2020-2021
    • Trying, 2020
    • Political Office, 2018-2019
    • Jamaica, Queens, 2012- 2016
    • Fjellerup i Bund & Grund, 2013-2015
    • Al Safa, Bay Ridge, 2013
    • A Hard Read residency, 2012
    • At Home at Hopper('s) House, 2011
    • A Lot, NY community gardens, 2009-2013
    • Vets & Pets, 2008 - 2010
    • Faceless Portrait, 2007
    • Visitor, 2006 - 2010
    • "Outsiders" and "Insiders" 2004-present
My presentation panel: Nov. 11th, 2018, 9:30AM - 10:45PM

I explore three types of inspiration for H.C. Andersen: in 1819, the 14 year old pauper catapults his physical self from Odense to Copenhagen via an early desire for personal fame, described by himself as “an utterly inexplicable drive;” secondly, Andersen transcends an often perplexing, wounding reality and his asexuality through his creativity and fairy tales; finally, he achieves the stimulus of travel via grants and avoidance of real estate commitments: he remains a renter of rooms his entire life while frequently inserting himself into the estates of the Danish nobility, reciprocating with entertainment: his readings and paper-cuts.


Space All Over: The Transient Village Green since 2004. All images copyright Anna Lise Jensen.